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Summer Holiday independent Learning Project

I would love to see you start blogging over the holidays.  If you have not already done so, post your blog address under the post just under this one.  If you have your blog here, I will follow the blog over the holiday and happily comment on your stories, poetry and reports.

Have a look at the design you have chosen, customise it if you want to. Georgia has fish she can feed on hers and everything!there is loads you can do.  Have a go at adding images, redesigning the layout or adding apps.

Check out some other blogs on blogger and follow them.  There are loads of amazing blogs out there.  Some are on very specific topics or hobbies.  Others are just daily rambling, sharing of thoughts, feeling and events in life.

How about some poetry, a short story or a report on an a activity you have done?  Happy blogging!

REMINDER - be mindful of what you put out there, it is public so be safe and sensible online.

Presepolis - Diary Entry

TASK:

-  Presepolis books are in the cupboard near the door if you would like to look at what we read but the page is also featured above.

-  Review the opening to the story that we read last lesson.

- Log onto the computers and open word.

-  Plan and draft a diary entry for the main character that we met in the opening exploring how she felt about what she was going through in word.  Look here for tips on how to write your diary well http://www.slideshare.net/mssami/how-to-write-a-diary-entry

-  Log onto computers and review your PPT on the Iranian Revolution that had taken place at this time (this is also outlined in the introduction we read last lesson in the reading book) and add in more to your draft of the diary entry to reflect the events she would have possibly witnessed or known about at the time.  

- Ask a fellow student to review your diary entry and help you make corrections.

- Post this diary entry on you own blogs.  A guide on how to do this is here if you cannot remember or get stuck. https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41378?hl=en

- post the link to your blog onto our class blog.

EXTENSION - Complete your Iran Research PPT and email me the document sarah.findlater@riddlesdown.org

NOTE - you have any problems posting the diary entry to your own blog then please just post it in the 

Comments session below this post.

Half Term Homework - Your Turn to Blog

Hello lovely Year 9. Happy half term!

Here are your tasks this holiday.

 1.     Set up a blog for reflective writing.  Using blogger as a platform. http://www.blogger.com Follow the instructions here is you are stuck. http://youtu.be/tSOeIKKUMB4

2.  Email me the link to your blog once you have completed the set up. sarah.findlater@riddlesdown.org

You do not have to write a post yet but feel free to write a small summary of your activities over the half term.  Remember that I will be looking at this regularly and the general public have access too so only ever post up material you are happy with anyone viewing. 

WARNING - What you put out there can stay out there, even when you delete it. Think before you post.

      

Prezi -Reading Assessment Revision

Afternoon Y9,

I would like you all to create prezis outlining how to improve your essay skills.  Look over the Prezi guide below and create your own account first.  Then move on to creating your top tips Prezi for your reading assessment.

 

Happy revising!

Topics you could include are:

1. Analysing Texts
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/fiction.htm

2. PEE Paragraphing
http://butwhy.edublogs.org/2010/01/24/paragraphs-learning-to-pee-point-evidence-explanation/

3. Using Quotes
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/english/reading-non-fiction/revise-it/using-quotes-and-key-information

4.  How to Write Excellent Essays:
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/analysis.htm

 

Prezi -Writing Top Tips

Your task now is to creata Prezi on how to do the best you can in your writing. You can include some of the your tube clips you have seen if you with but get the basics in there first. Good luck.

http://prezi.com/

How to Use Prezi - Help Tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1iqZQH5vI

Example Writing Prezi:

http://prezi.com/uxu6ctiykv6l/essay-writing-tips/

http://prezi.com/cymo9fpqykog/controlling-paragraphs/

http://prezi.com/ztdkzvzjq4pt/control-freakery/

Post the link to your Prezi under this post in the comments box please.

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Shakirah

Little Green Riding Hood:

One day there was a little girl called little Green Riding Hood. She was only ten years old and had dark black soft hair like snow - there was something different about her. She was a really bad girl and never listened to anyone.

One day mother had asked Little Green  Riding Hood to go to her dads house and bring him some soup that mum had made as he was very ill.  So she walk down the deepest, darkest part of the woods called the Never Seen Again . What’s down their?   Who knows what going to happen?

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Rina S.

Holes:

The light from the sun shines through the gap in my curtain, I get out of bed. Another day of digging holes I say to myself. I get ready and go to the canteen for breakfast. The food smells revolting. I gulp it down trying hard not to puke it up. Making my way towards the shed to get a shovel, I find a lizard sitting on the handle. I don’t want to look like a wimp in front of everyone so I go to grab it.

 

The lizard sits there staring at me with its huge evil black eyes.

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Georgia

Holes:

As zero and I headed up the mountain the sun landed on us like a tonne of bricks. We kept going, we were half way there and we weren’t stopping now. All of a sudden zero fell to the ground. We hadn’t eaten in 3 days and we had run out of water. Zero couldn’t get up. I knew there would be water at the top of the mountain I told him. I knew we could get there before the sun went down.

I picked up zero and we headed off to the top of the mountain were we found… Water. 

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Alison O.

Millions:

Damien and Antony moved to the country with their dad, who was trying to start a new life because they had recently lost a member of their family to an illness.  This situation made the youngest brother Damien turn to his faith more. Damien believed that his mother was a saint, he thought about his mother a lot.

One morning when Damien walked where he had walked a hundred times before,  BOOM,  a sports bag crashed to the ground smashing his den. As he went to go to investigate he saw a £20 note flying in the wind towards him.

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Lloyd C.

The Crucible:

In the courtroom, Mary Warren was being accused of being a witch. If she was guilty she would have been sentenced to execution. Inside the courtroom lay Reverend John Hale, Elizabeth Procter, Judge Hathorne, And Reverend Parris, their final moments inside the courtroom.

The judge banged his Mallet on the table, Mary was accused of Witchcraft and sentenced to execution. She was dragged into a cell crying,

The Lock of the cell gate and the Jailers walking off, still crying Mary couldn’t believe what was happening. Her life was about to end, She lay on the bed waiting.

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Ashley S.

The Hunger Games

Katniss looks around franticly as the crowd roars and the contestants are lowered into the arena.  She realises that there’s no more messing around as this is it… it was her who chose to go in at the reaping instead of her sister.  Would I rather it be  Prim who went in or me? Would I rather she was killed by kids who could handle a knife like a serial killer?

 

No.

 

She wasn’t going to let this happen. Her heart beats out of her chest as the sweat drips down her head… 3….2….1.
The hunger games commence…

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Megan P.

Holes:

Zero had run away from Camp Green Lake:

Stanley trekking through the hot dessert, desperate to just feel fresh water run down his dry painful throat.  He moves slowly across the dry crumbled waste land…  He looks back to the camp thinking, “should I go back”??

He looks round and there he sees a blue blob miles away from him, through the steaming fog. He walks faster and faster even though it hurts, “it could be Zero” he thinks!  It looks like a boat with writing on it?? Saying Mary Lo… Stanley bends down to see a small crack big enough for him to go through, There zero was lying peacefully!!

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Josh S.

Holes Stanley was marching down the road with no swag. Suddenly a pair of shoes fell from the sky and hit him on the head.
“OWCH” screamed Stanley as he stumbles to his feet. He picked up the shoes and put them on his feet. Now Stanley has so much swag and he looks sick! Suddenly out of nowhere, he heard the police sirens so he decided to run. The shoe laces came undone and he fell to the groupd with a thump.

 

The police circled round him.

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Matt Ha.

Mark Zuckerburg: making Facebook
I was in my apartment when the idea for Facebook came around.  My mate said “why don’t you make a social network site for Harvard students and I was like “Yeah let’s do that”. So as I was studying in class, I would go on the computers and draw up the plans for it. Then I had finally got the website going and had my first friend.

The word got out that I had made a social network site and people started to make accounts. People started telling others about the Harvard confidential site.  I had to think up a name.

 

Facebook.      

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Hannah P.

The Crucible

My favourite scene is where the girls are in the court room and Abigail is being accused. She can’t take being there so she pretends that Mary has sent spirits to come and get her. She starts pretending she’s having a fit and vanishes into thin air. The Court room in suspense…

Where did she go?

The girls kept quiet, mouths were closed and no one said a word... everyone was blissfully unaware of what happened. As soon as they looked at Mary thinking she really is a witch, everyone glares at her; suddenly she shouted "she’s in the woods!"

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Dan C

The Crucible Court Scene:

The judge entered the court and sat down in his chair.

“In this court, you must swear to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth. This is the trial for Elizabeth Proctor, who is accused of practising witchcraft." The judge looked at his papers. “According to Abigail, you were dancing in the woods. Is this true?”

"No your honour” replied Elizabeth. “We also found a poppet in your house; you say it belongs to Mary Warren. Is this true Mary?”

“Yes your honour, it is, I made it in the court the other week, Abigail watched me make it.”

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Danny J

 

Holes:

 

It was a hot summers day in the middle of a desert.  I and my associates are sweating like pigs, and our clothes are completely drenched where we tried to dry ourselves with water.

We realised that was a bad idea because we are in the middle of the desert and we can’t go in until we’ve dug a hole. Everyone just sat down in fatigue, a strange hissing noise came from a distance. With a loud crunch everyone jumped in fright! Only I of the group went and checked it out for the group’s safe being.

 

I feel an agonizing pain...

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Ryan G.

IRON MAN:

 

As Tony Stark is showing off his new weapons, Tony and the army get ambushed by the ‘’the bad guy.’’ They get taken into a cave to make bombs. As Tony lies to them saying he will make them, he is actually making a suit to kill all the bad guy.

 

The bad guys have seen what he was up to.  He gets in his suit and he brakes the door down and he kills all the bad guys in they cave.  Then he fly’s off but crash lands in the sand 

100 Word Challenge - Scenes From Books - Matt Hi.

The Crucible

As they were in the court, Proctor was arguing to save his wife. Abigail was trying to get his wife taken away so she can have him to herself.  She wants something dones with Elizabeth so she can have Proctor who disliked her anyway.  They had a relationship previously but loved his wife and not her.  Paris disapproved of Proctor so was helping Abigail to get Proctors wife (Elizabeth) put in jail if he could, Proctor to.  Abigail was in a forest with Mary and his slave and would deny seeing them.